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Head to head · Company knowledge search · October 2026 research run

Dust vs Hexis Cloud

Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do company knowledge search.

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DustPermutation Labs · HTTP API B62.8/100#447 of 1084 Hexis CloudBevelites GmbH (Bevel) · MCP server C55.3/100#705 of 1084

Which one, for what

Dust B

Best for A team that already works in Dust and wants an outside agent to search its spaces, read documents and call its agents with a user's own access.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 53 against 18
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 57
  • Security & auth, 75 against 64

Watch for

Programmatic usage has no free credits. It draws only on the workspace credit pool, which Free seats cannot use

Hexis Cloud C

Best for A team that wants its agent skills, company pages and tool credentials in one git repository, reviewed and access-controlled per file, and reached by any MCP client.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 83 against 75
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 20
  • Transparency & trust, 75 against 68

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

The terms and security page state no backups, no SLA, no penetration test, no certification and no MFA of its own

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runDustHexis CloudEdge
Reliability16%205318Dust +35
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27583Hexis Cloud +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.26757Dust +10
Security & auth14%17.57564Dust +11
Payments & pricing10%12.52030Hexis Cloud +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88685Dust +1
Transparency & trust7%8.86875Hexis Cloud +7
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 62.8/100C 55.3/100

Facts side by side

FactDustHexis Cloud
KindHTTP APIMCP server
VendorPermutation LabsBevelites GmbH (Bevel)
Hosted endpointhttps://dust.tt/mcphttps://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp
TransportsHTTPStreamable HTTP, stdio
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for @dust-tt/client and MIT for @dust-tt/dust-cliApache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026
Read-only variant documentednoyes
llms.txtyesno
MCP registrynot listedio.github.Bevel-Software/hexis
Last release2026-10-082026-10-14
Terms last updatedno document linkedcouldn't be read
Privacy policy last updatedno date givencouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelscouldn't be read
Terms restrict automated accesscouldn't be read
Terms restrict benchmarkingcouldn't be read
Terms or service can change without noticecouldn't be read
Arbitration or class-action waivercouldn't be read
Popularity1.5k stars, 17k npm/wk114 stars, 900 npm/wk

Verdicts

Dust

The whole platform is MIT on GitHub, with a public OpenAPI document of 68 operations, llms.txt and a remote MCP server that acts with the signed-in user's access. API calls that run agents draw only on a paid workspace credit pool, and the terms of service could not be read.

Hexis Cloud

Agents reach a git-backed knowledge base, shared skills and connected tools through one OAuth MCP endpoint that applies each person's per-file permissions, with read-only connections and an audit log of tool calls. The hosted edition dates from 11 October 2026, and its own terms state no backups, no uptime commitment and no security certification.

Before you call either

Dust

  1. Use https://eu.dust.tt for a workspace in the EU region and https://dust.tt otherwise, for both the API and the MCP server
  2. Connect an MCP client by OAuth and send the resource parameter in authorisation and token requests. API keys do not work on the MCP server
  3. Expect HTTP 429 with type rate_limit_error when the credit pool, the programmatic monthly cap or the key's spend cap is exhausted. Retrying will not help
  4. Call GET /api/v1/w/{wId}/search with limit (1 to 100, default 25) and cursor, or a data source view's search with top_k
  5. Keep document upserts under 120 a minute per workspace

Hexis Cloud

  1. Ask the person for a read-only connection when the task only reads. It answers canWrite false everywhere
  2. Pass the branch you are working on to every knowledge-base tool. Calls without a required branch are refused
  3. Check canWrite from list_files, read_file or get_skill before writing, and open a change request when it is false
  4. Use list_tools and tools_info before call_tool_chain, and never ask the person for a tool's secret in chat
  5. Keep your own copy of anything important. Hexis Cloud keeps no backups of Managed repositories

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Dust or Hexis Cloud?

Dust scores 62.8 (B) on agent readiness against Hexis Cloud's 55.3 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Hexis Cloud leads on schema & documentation, payments & pricing and transparency & trust.

Do Dust and Hexis Cloud need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call Dust and Hexis Cloud without installing anything?

Yes. Dust has a hosted endpoint at https://dust.tt/mcp and Hexis Cloud at https://<workspace>.hexis.software/api/mcp.

Are Dust and Hexis Cloud open source?

Yes. Dust is open source (MIT for the platform's source at github.com/dust-tt/dust. The hosted service is sold under Dust's own terms. The npm page gives ISC for `@dust-tt/client` and MIT for `@dust-tt/dust-cli`). Hexis Cloud is open source (Apache-2.0 (the Hexis software). Hexis Cloud, the hosted service at hexis.software, is governed by Bevel's Terms of Service of 11 October 2026).

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